Atra Cambrensis

An elderly, rural witch. She flies on broomsticks, cackles and has only one tooth.
Yup, she's a witch. She does toads, if need be.

Atra's cookery is suspect, to say the least; not simply because that soup
might be a witch's brew, but mostly because she is fond of putting soap in
everything, magical or not.

As of the Corby Tribe storyline, the thing about the tooth is no longer technically true. Atra has lots of teeth, but most people see only one.

Biography

Atra was apprenticed to Bess Johnsworth, and after Bess'
suspicious firey death to Sanderon Magnus. Mature witches
are expected to behave somewhat eccentrically, but it has been suggested that Atra's
intermittent psychotic episodes had something to do with the events surrounding her
first tutor's death. On that fateful Beltane's Eve, Atra was transported to the
Ancestor's Shrine in the land of the Gnomes (the core country from which the current
Gnomian Republic has grown), disguised as a Douard, with the intention to bring back
an Ancestor's Bone from there. The bone would then be used for a potion that would
allow Bess, Sanderon and Atra to transform themselves into birds. Atra brought back
several Bones, and they did work, after a fashion.

After completing her apprenticeship, Atra settled in the forest as a rural witch.
She was married at least once and had 10 children whose current whereabouts are
unknown. It is thought that most of them made it to adulthood, and had offspring of
their own. When she joined the gang in 973, some of them were still living with her
in her cottage in the woods.

Atra's connection with the real world is tenuous at times. She had a long period
where all her recipes, including the gang's dinners, included soap, but lately, she's
been focused and hardly ever munches soap at all. After Kel's
natural magical talents were revealed, Atra started tutoring the girl, and lately she
has made a spirited attempt to teach Krakatoa, who
already knows everything. Fortunately, Kra is an independent sort and has chosen to
get a cottage of her own.

Atra was recently rejuvenated through exposure to the Fire of Ungdomma, which took about fourty years off her age. She has the experience of an old lady but the energy of a teenager. Beware.